E4S - Key Persons


Adrian Dellecker

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Writer, Center for Sustainable and Inclusive Business, IMD
Adrian Dellecker brings 14 years working at WWF, including leading policy positioning and negotiations for the NGO at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity as Head of Policy and Advocacy. He has led innovative projects on biodiversity indicators as well as using technology for monitoring biodiversity. He currently leads biodiversity research efforts at the IMD Center for Sustainable and Inclusive Business.

Agathe Crosnier

Job Titles:
  • Student, EPFL
In the True Cost of Food project, Agathe's research focuses on the TCAF methodology, and she contributes to the development of the TCAF-Calc and webtool.

Alessandra Rojas

Job Titles:
  • Co - Lead Innovation

Alexandre Pauli

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Collaborator, EPFL

Alisa Gessler

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Collaborator, HEC - UNIL

Alyson Meister

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, IMD

Amanda Williams

Job Titles:
  • Sustainability Research Fellow, IMD

Andreas Fuster

Job Titles:
  • Professor, EPFL

Andrew Sonta

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, EPFL

André Hoffmann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Vice - Chairman, Roche

Anna Nicolet

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow, Unisanté
Anna is involved in the project True Cost of Food where she explores the behavior and trade-offs of consumers and specifically helps with developing and conducting the choice experiments.

Arnaud Chevallier

Job Titles:
  • Program Co - Director
  • Professor of Strategy, IMD

Benoît Mojon

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Economic Analysis, BIS

Boris Thurm

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Collaborator, EPFL
Passionate about nature, mountains, and mathematics, Boris has a multidisciplinary background (BSc in Environmental Sciences and Engineering, MSc in Energy Management and sustainability, and PhD in Economics at EPFL). His research interests include the assessment of the environmental and socio-economic impacts of human activities and the understanding of the drivers behind individuals' decision-making and cooperation. He is also enthusiastic about teaching and knowledge dissemination.

Brigitte Rorive

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • President, Fondation Leenaards

Bárbara Franco Lucas

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Collaborator, BFH - HAFL

Caroline Perrot

Job Titles:
  • Program Co - Director
  • Master Program Deputy

Charles Efferson

Job Titles:
  • Professor, HEC - UNIL

Christian Dremel

Job Titles:
  • Product Manager Data & AI Products, CARIAD

Christine Legner

Job Titles:
  • Professor, HEC - UNIL

Clémence Gallopin

Job Titles:
  • ESG Analyst, Fondation Ethos

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor, L'IDIAP Laboratory

Dario Scalabrin

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Dimitrija Kalanoski

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Alliance Manchester Business School

Dominik Breitinger

Job Titles:
  • Head, Strategic Projects & Partnerships

Dominique Barjolle

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator True Cost of Food Project, UNIL

Edoardo Chiarotti

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Collaborator, HEC - UNIL

Elena Vannini

Job Titles:
  • Financial Coordinator

Emmanuel Ravalet

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer, EPFL

Erden Özkol Zeynep

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher, ZHAW

Eric Jondeau

Job Titles:
  • Professor, HEC - UNIL

Erwan Morellec

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Evelyn Markoni

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Food Sociology, BFH - HAFL

Fabrizio Colella

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, CReAM - UCL

Federica Poletti - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Head of Communications

Felicitas Morhart

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing and Founder of the Swiss Center for Luxury Research, HEC - UNIL

Felix Philipp

Job Titles:
  • Circular Economy and Material Manager, Lombard Odier Investment Managers

Filippo Trapanese

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Florence Hugard

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Collaborator, HEC - UNIL

Francesca Bassani

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, EPFL Valais Wallis

Franziska Goetze

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate for Consumer Behavior, BFH - HAFL

François Maréchal

Job Titles:
  • Professor, EPFL

Gaetan de Rassenfosse

Job Titles:
  • Professor, EPFL

Gaia Melloni

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, HEC - UNIL

Gianalberto Losapio

Job Titles:
  • Professor, UNIL

Gino Baudry

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Collaborator, EPFL

Giulio Cisco

Job Titles:
  • Candidate in Health Economics, Unisant

Harald Mayr

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher, UZH

Hubert Keller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Managing Partner, Lombard Odier DH

Ilona Klausener

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Isa Cakir

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sustainable Finance & Quantitative Methods, Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability

Jan Skaloud

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist, EPFL

Jana von Freyberg

Job Titles:
  • Water Sciences Scientist, EPFL

Jasmina Djordjevic

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Collaborator

Jean-Luc Chenaux

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, UNIL

Jean-Pierre Ghobril

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher, Unisanté

Jennifer Jordan

Job Titles:
  • Professor, IMD

Joachim Marti

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Health Economics, Unisant

Johannes Buggle

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, University of Vienna

John Antonakis

Job Titles:
  • Professor, HEC - UNIL

Jordane Widmer

Job Titles:
  • Event Coordinator

Josie Hughes

Job Titles:
  • Professor, EPFL

Jovana Dikovic

Job Titles:
  • Head of  Sustainable Impact and Inclusive Development, Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability

Julia Binder

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Sustainable Innovation at IMD

Julia Bory

Job Titles:
  • Co - Lead Innovation

Julie Shuyue Qiao

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Collaborator, EPFL

Julien Meillard

Job Titles:
  • Adjoint Assemblée De La Transition UNIL

Karl Schmedders

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Finance, IMD

Kavous Salehzadeh Niksirat

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, Persuasive Tech Lab, HEC - UNIL

Kenza Benhima

Job Titles:
  • Professor, HEC - UNIL

Klaus Schönenberger

Job Titles:
  • Director, EssentialTech, EPFL

Knut Haanaes

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Strategy, IMD

Kévin Huguenin

Job Titles:
  • Professor, HEC - UNIL

Linda Mhalla

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Collaborator, HEC - UNIL

Luca Fumagalli

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory for Conservation Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolution, UNIL

Luiz A. Pereira da Silva

Job Titles:
  • Deputy General Manager

Manon Schläpfer

Job Titles:
  • Student and Research Assistant, UNIL

Marc Gruber

Job Titles:
  • Professor, EPFL

Margot Stuart

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer & Co - Founder at OriginAll SA

Martyn Wakeman

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer, EPFL

Martí Bosch Padrós

Job Titles:
  • Data Scientist, EPFL

Meret Aeppli

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor and Head of the Soil Biogeochemistry Laboratory, EPFL

Michel Jaccard

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Partner, Id Est Avocats

Murielle Bochud

Job Titles:
  • Chief Physician and Full Professor, Unisanté

Nadav Peleg

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, UNIL

Negar Kiyavash

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Chair of Business Analytics, EPFL

Olivier Gallay

Job Titles:
  • Program Co - Director
  • Professor of Operations Research, HEC - UNIL

Pascal Kiener

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • CEO, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise

Patrick Haack

Job Titles:
  • Professor, HEC - UNIL

Patrick Reichert

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director Elea Center for Social Innovation

Patrick Rérat

Job Titles:
  • Professor, UNIL

Paula Cacault

Job Titles:
  • Head of Operations

Philip Garner

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer, L'IDIAP Laboratory

Philipp Aerni

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Director, Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability

Philippe Thalmann

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor in Environmental Economics, EPFL

PJ Stephenson

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow, Laboratory for Conservation Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolution, UNIL

Prof. Christian Gollier

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Director, Toulouse School of Economics

Prof. Colin Mayer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Emeritus Professor, Oxford University, Saïd Business School

Prof. David Bach

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Innovation and Programs, IMD
  • Member of Steering Comittee

Prof. Florian Hoos

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Board
  • Managing Director, IMD

Prof. Frédéric Herman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Supervisory Board
  • Rector, UNIL
"This is a unique opportunity to take our know-how in sustainability and our long-standing experience, through HEC, in business research and education, and combine them with the core competencies of two major universities - one specialized in technology and the other in management and large corporations."

Prof. Gail Whiteman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Professor of Sustainability, University of Exeter Business School ( UK )

Prof. Jean-François Manzoni

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Supervisory Board
  • President, IMD
"We all have the same vision - to innovate constantly and to create research and educational opportunities that meet society's needs. Through this joint initiative, we can draw on the best each school has to offer through cross-disciplinary projects and programs that, even if we could have offered them individually, will be more effective given together."

Prof. Jean-Philippe Bonardi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Board
  • Managing Director, HEC - UNIL

Prof. Jean-Pierre Danthine

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Director
  • Member of the Management Board
  • Honorary Managing Director, EPFL

Prof. Marianne Schmid Mast

Job Titles:
  • Dean, UNIL - HEC Lausanne
  • Full Professor of Organizational Behavior and Dean of HEC - UNIL
  • Member of Steering Comittee

Prof. Martin Vetterli

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Supervisory Board
  • President, EPFL
"Our society has reached a tipping point. By pooling the right kinds of expertise, we can harness science and technology to take our society in the right direction. That is precisely what E4S has been set up to do."

Prof. Michaël Aklin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Board
  • Program Co - Director
  • Managing Director, EPFL
  • Managing Director, EPFL / Program Administration

Prof. Pascaline Dupas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Prof. Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

Job Titles:
  • Director, College of Management of Technology, EPFL
  • Member of Steering Comittee

Quentin Gallea

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Collaborator, HEC - UNIL

Rafael Lalive

Job Titles:
  • Professor, HEC - UNIL

Ralf Seifert

Job Titles:
  • Professor, IMD

Reyhaneh Ramezani

Job Titles:
  • Master Student, EPFL

Rosa Helena Schneider

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Collaborator, CCRS Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability

Samuel Wicki

Job Titles:
  • Projects Lead

Sara Bonetti

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, EPFL

Sascha Nick

Job Titles:
  • Researcher, EPFL

Satoshi Takahama

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist, EPFL

Sebastien Houde

Job Titles:
  • Professor, HEC - UNIL

Sidney Lienhard

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, Center for Corporate Responsability and Sustainability

Sonja Vogt

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, UNIL

Sophie Bacq

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, IMD

Stéphane J.G. Girod

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Thought Leader in Transformation, IMD

Theresa Tribaldos

Job Titles:
  • Head of Just Economies and Human Well - Being Impact Area, University of Bern

Thomas Brunner

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Consumer Behavior, BFH - HAFL

Thomas Höhne-Sparborth

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sustainability Research, Lombard Odier Investment Managers

Valérie Chavez-Demoulin

Job Titles:
  • Professor, HEC - UNIL

Vanina Farber

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Social Innovation and Dean of the IMD EMBA Program, IMD

Veronica Petrencu

Job Titles:
  • Projects Coordinator & Research Fellow, UNIL & EPFL

Virginie Lurkin

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, HEC - UNIL

Véronique Michaud

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Yann Costa

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Yash Shrestha

Job Titles:
  • Professor, UNIL

Yves Leterrier

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Öykü Işık

Job Titles:
  • Professor, IMD